Mumbai fest wild for ‘Beasts’

Zeitlin's pic nabs grand prize for film, best actor

LONDON

Benh Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild” won grand prize and best actor for Dwight Henry at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival, which wrapped Thursday.

Julia Garner took best actress for another U.S. film, Rebecca Thomas’s “Electrick Children.” Musa Syeed’s “Valley of Saints,” an India-U.S. co-production, won the special jury award while Anand Gandhi’s “Ship of Theseus” (India) nabbed the jury award for technical excellence for DoP Pankaj Kumar.

Antonio Mendez Esparza’s U.S., Mexican and Spanish co-production “Here and There” won for first feature.